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Recently I got tangled into this problem in my code - Calling a vector destructor for a scalar pointer. We all know that it is perfectly illegal to do that. For example, if we allocate something like …
Read more →For an ATL class, the QueryInterface is implemented in CComObject. The figure below is the inheritance hierarchy for a class generated by the wizard representing an ATL-COM object. CComObjectRootBase …
Read more →To understand quickly and to explain in the simplest way, Class Factories are the factory classes that create a COM object. A class factory may be responsible for creating one or more COM objects. In …
Read more →It is UNSAFE to do any operation on an STL container that will modify its size while holding a reference to one of its existing element. What could happen is, when you do an operation, say push_back …
Read more →Learnt something new, a small one but very useful. Many times I have seen GUI applications accompanied by console windows that show logs or trace information of the application. How do we do that for …
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